Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the sphenoid and palatine bones. Also sphenopalatal, sphenopalatinate.
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- adjective anatomy Relating to, or connecting, the
sphenoid bone and thepalate .
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Examples
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You're not alone because billions of individuals have endured this common reaction called sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.
Brain Blogger 2009
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You're not alone because billions of individuals have endured this common reaction called sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.
Brain Blogger 2009
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You're not alone because billions of individuals have endured this common reaction called sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.
Brain Blogger 2009
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You're not alone because billions of individuals have endured this common reaction called sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.
Brain Blogger 2009
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No one really knows why, but scientists think that stabbed-in-the-forehead feeling (sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia) occurs when the temperature of your palate doesn't have time to normalize between spoonfuls of flavored ice.
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Plus, sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia (brain freeze).
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Thus it receives the sphenopalatine, the middle meningeal, the deep temporal, the pterygoid, masseteric, buccinator, alveolar, and some palatine veins, and a branch which communicates with the ophthalmic vein through the inferior orbital fissure.
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The fossa contains the maxillary nerve, the sphenopalatine ganglion, and the terminal part of the internal maxillary artery.
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The lateral wall and the floor are separated posteriorly by the inferior orbital fissure which transmits the maxillary nerve and its zygomatic branch, the infraorbital vessels, and the ascending branches from the sphenopalatine ganglion.
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On the under surface of the vaginal process is a furrow, which is converted into a canal by the sphenoidal process of the palatine bone, for the transmission of the pharyngeal branch of the internal maxillary artery and the pharyngeal nerve from the sphenopalatine ganglion.
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